A law unto itself? : essays in the new Louisiana legal history
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A law unto itself? : essays in the new Louisiana legal history
Louisiana State University Press, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- A course of legal studies / Warren M. Billings
- "The people's friend, the tyrant's foe" / Florence M. Jumonville
- Case law reporters in nineteenth-century Louisiana / Carla Downer Pritchett
- Local justice in the territory of Orleans / Mark F. Fernandez
- Louisiana's Court of Errors and Appeals, 1843-1846 / Sheridan E. Young
- Of generals and jurists : the judicial system of New Orleans under Union occupation, May 1862-April 1865 / Thomas W. Helis
- "Forever free from the bonds of slavery" / Judith Kelleher Schafer
- Defiant women and the Supreme Court of Louisiana in the nineteenth century / Kathryn Page
- Imperfect equality / Ellen Holmes Pearson
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Description
Louisiana's legal heritage has long been a source of fascination, curiosity, and sadly, misinformation. Outsiders have viewed the legal system as an anomaly and have shunned its study because of its perceived quirkiness. Moreover, past writings about the state's legal structure have focused on the minutiae of Louisiana's civil law origins, adding to an image of peculiarity. Consequently, Louisiana has been generally ignored in treatments of American or southern legal history. Recently, however, a new vision has emerged the New Louisiana Legal History. A product of an energetic cadre of writers, this rendering explores new methods and areas of research with the aim of integrating Louisiana into the mainstream of American legal history, southern history, and American history in general.
The ten essays in this volume -- which address law in the state through the nineteenth century -- mark the coming of age of the New Louisiana Legal History. Grounded in novel research methodologies and underutilized manuscripts, this book links the distinctive history of Louisiana law to the wider contexts of southern and American history and offers an exciting new interpretation of the state's unique past.
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